Stoic Paradoxes ( Paradoxa Stoicorum) Marcus Tullius Cicero

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Philosophy, Stoicism, Roman

Collection: opensource

Language: English

The Paradoxa Stoicorum (English: Stoic Paradoxes) is a work by Cicero in which he attempts to explain six famous Stoic sayings that appear to go against common knowledge.

This version was extracted from the r/Stoicism's wiki.

This translation of Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes) comes from Cicero's three books of offices, or moral duties, translated by Cyrus R. Edmonds, and first published in 1892 (and therefore public domain in the U.S.), using a scan made available by archive.org here. (Only a couple of the notes provided in the original publication are transcribed here.)

For additional discussion of Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes, see this lecture.